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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1894
Page
1
Long campaign notes from Indiana outline party tickets for governor and legislature, includes Governor Matthews praise and centennial plans. Editor calls for civic unity, condemns saloon licensing delays, and covers election forecasts, party unity, and Black Democratic League speakings.
A long report outlines the forthcoming campaign structure with district by district data and a new five dollar silver certificate design. It notes headquarters activity since November and a push to supply literature, while Fort Wayne hosts a major race meeting August 27 to September with high stakes purses and an added electric car line to the grandstand.
The largest Indiana Democratic gathering to date convened August 15 at Tomlinson Hall with 1,747 delegates. Governor Matthews named permanent chairman as platforms endorse tariff reform and denounce Brice, Gorman, and Smith, with Daly for Supreme Court, Myerstar as Secretary, Fannlegnier as Aditor, Chanadler for Treasurer, and Griffith for Attorney General.
The address denounces financial turmoil caused by missteps of business and party policy. It lauds Cleveland era reforms, vows tarff reform, and asserts continued opposition to protected tariffs while stressing honest governance and progressive taxation. The platform endorses silver as a stable monetary standard and calls for economic liberty and fiscal restraint.
The document lauds the 1892 platform and Democratic Congress for tariff reform, endorses free lists for sugar coal iron ore and barbed wire, backs income tax overturns, greenback taxation, and pension support, while blasting Republican obstruction and anti immigration aims. It also applauds bimetallic system signals and Cleveland Mathews administration, with a curbed call to expose masquerading Democratic senators.
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